Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2017

Combined with matching funding from other public and private entities in California, the total project funding will be more than $9M and result in an eight bus demonstration fleet deployed in California by 2019. We thank DoE for this award, and applaud Blue Bird’s leadership in this arena.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

the first series vehicle based on the MEB, will begin in Zwickau at the end of 2019. Volkswagen’s electric offensive is based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB), a technology platform developed specifically for electric vehicles. Production of the Volkswagen ID.,

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In 2019 at the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling event, CEO Elon Musk and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen planned to display the strength of the pickup by slamming it with a sledgehammer and throwing a steel ball at its window. This was a notable success for Cybertruck, especially as the cracked glass of 2019 became a bit of a meme.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2022

when a car drives past a stopped school bus illegally—continue to be one of the most significant dangers to children and other vulnerable road users around school buses with an estimated 17 million stop-arm violations reported in the US in 2019. Studies show that stop-arm violations—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Neste started this business platform in its Innovation unit in 2019 as part of its efforts aiming towards commercialization of Power-to-X strategy for synthetic e-fuel and e-feedstock production. Neste is actively building technology solutions and business to realize commercial production of sustainable e-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Ballard will provide the company's next-generation fuel cell module—the FCmove-HD, which is planned for commercial launch in mid-2019—to power the Reach Stacker. The H2PORTS project represents one more important step toward broad-based adoption of zero-emission fuel cell technology in the marine sector.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

Japan’s NEDO, Sharp Corporation, and Toyota Motor Corporation plan to begin public road trials of electrified vehicles equipped with high-efficiency solar batteries from late July 2019. Toyota installed this panel on the roof, hood, rear hatch door, and other parts of its Prius PHV and produced a demo car for public road trials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will exhibit the latest version of the xAUTO, a vehicle capable of autonomous driving on surface roads without high-definition maps and of parking autonomously both indoors and outdoors, during the 46 th Tokyo Motor Show 2019 from 24 October to 4 November.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2022

Based on its proprietary technology, REEtec has been separating rare earths at an industrial-scale demo-plant since 2019. Schaeffler has been producing electric motors on a large scale since 2021 and offers its customers power classes ranging from 20 kW to more than 300 kW.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN Truck & Bus is sending a fleet of demo e-buses to customers in five European countries this year. This year, another 13 demo vehicles will be deployed in practice as part of the e-mobility roadmap. Sales of the 18-meter electric bus started in April.

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Teslarati

MARCH 18, 2022

The second oldest Falcon 9 booster that’s still operational, B1051 debuted in a significant way on March 2nd, 2019 by supporting Demo-1, Crew Dragon’s first uncrewed test flight. Falcon 9 B1051 rolls out for its first launch – February 2019. B1051’s eleventh launch – December 2021.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Delphi Automotive PLC and Mobileye will showcase their Centralized Sensing Localization and Planning (CSLP) automated driving system—which will be ready for production by 2019—on a 6.3-mile mile urban and highway combined public route in Las Vegas for CES 2017. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. California’s ultra-low NO x emissions standard is 0.02 grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp/hr).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

On 15 November 2017, Nikola and Nel announced the exclusive partnership and a purchase order for two demo hydrogen refueling stations for Nikola’s trucks. The additional purchase order brings the total value for the demo stations to approximately $9 million, with delivery in the second half of 2018 and into 2019.

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Teslarati

MAY 29, 2023

The original, hulking Cybertruck prototype unveiled in 2019 featured a steering yoke that is very similar to what was eventually released for the new Model S and Model X. The round steering wheel could be seen in the Optimus demo video that Tesla showcased during the 2023 Cyber Roundup.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 7, 2023

After a disastrous first launch attempt in December 2019, in which after the Starliner capsule separated, a software issue with the Mission Elapsed Time caused the capsule to burn too much propellant and enter the wrong orbit and was unable to reach the ISS, forcing a landing just two days after launch. That could push the launch to Mid-2024.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The current version has greatly improved performance while reducing the size to only the half of the former demo showcased on CES 2019, which can be easily integrated into any part of the vehicle body. More details of the latest version will be coming soon.

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MARCH 8, 2024

This system will allow the customer or dealer to charge trucks – whether it’s a demo unit or a multi-unit ride-and-drive event at the dealer – without having charging infrastructure readily available at their site,” says Ryan Saba, energy solutions manager for Mack Trucks.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 30, 2023

There’s also a fair number of used EVs under a year old or as dealer ex-demos with heavy discounts over RRP. Many are ex-demos that simply haven’t sold. Earliest 2019/2020 models can be had for under $40k, are still in warranty and are down from $63,500 drive-away (Elite) and over $70k drive-away (Highlander).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Due for release in 2019 and being shown at the event as a production-ready motorcycle, LiveWire was first confirmed during the announcement of the company’s “More Roads to Harley-Davidson.” ( Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Saft, which is designing and building ultra- high-power cells for the vehicle’s hybrid electric drive system, has already completed the demo battery system including hardware and software. BAE Systems has awarded Saft $1.3 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

We’ll begin fleet testing the Nikola hydrogen electric semi-trucks in 2019. Nikola has already placed an initial order amounting to more than US$9 million for two demo-stations for which delivery will commence towards the end of 2018. The first two stations will be installed in Arizona and California depending on permit timelines.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2019

Torc has tested its on-road and traffic capabilities in demo self-driving cars that successfully logged robotic testing in more than 20 states while operating on both public roads and closed courses with zero accidents. Torc’s inclement weather capabilities were featured at CES 2019. The company employs around 100 people.

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EV Connect

MAY 24, 2022

Demos of EV Connect’s Fleet Solution to Attendees. Many of whom experienced real-time demos of our fleet product dashboard, customized for specific use cases based upon individual customer needs. Alongside the Expo, EV Connect welcomed nearly 100 guests to a casual reception event which culminated with a sustainability program.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2021

The other fairing half supported one other Starlink mission prior to Wednesday’s launch, making it SpaceX’s 15th launch – and Falcon 9’s fifth consecutive launch – with a fully flight-proven payload fairing since the company first began reusing the carbon composite nosecones in November 2019. Richard Angle).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2018

The e-fuel production capacity will be significantly increased in 2019 with the addition to the Leuna Demo plant of a dedicated fuel production unit, which will allow the production of renewable gasoline batches. Audi engineers are now examining the combustion and emission behavior of the renewable fuel in a test engine.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2022

The story of Starliner’s tortured orbital flight test (OFT) campaign began in earnest on December 20th, 2019, when an uncrewed prototype of the Boeing spacecraft first attempted to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. — Boeing Space (@BoeingSpace) May 20, 2022.

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APRIL 5, 2021

While Starliner hasn’t flown since a near-catastrophic orbital debut in December 2019 and isn’t likely to reattempt that uncrewed flight test until the second half of 2021, SpaceX is in the exact opposite position as it prepares to sustain an unprecedented Dragon launch cadence.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 18, 2021

Tesla bull and Loup Ventures Managing Partner Gene Munster previously noted that AI Day would likely be a “second edition” of sorts for the company’s Autonomy Day event back in 2019. The invitations that have been sent for AI Day suggest that the company is looking to expand its AI use to more than just vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Additionally, automotive supplier Valeo will be demoing their Leddar-based solid-state LiDAR sensor at their booth on the Central Plaza. These sample LiDARs feature the capabilities of the new generations of LeddarCore ICs: the LCA2, which is scheduled for volume commercial availability in 2018, and the LCA3, planned for 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Dai said his lab showed proof-of-concept with a demo, but the researchers will leave it up to manufacturers to scale and mass produce the design. McGehee, Xiaoming Sun, Hongjie Dai (2019) “Solar-driven, highly sustained splitting of seawater into hydrogen and oxygen fuels” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.1900556116.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

GITAI will apply the general-purpose autonomous space robotics technology, know-how, and experience acquired through this tech demo to develop extra-vehicular robotics (EVR) that can execute docking, repair, and maintenance tasks for On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) or conduct various activities for lunar exploration and lunar base construction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

2019) “Mixing-Limited Combustion of Alcohol Fuels in a Diesel Engine,” SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-0552, doi: 10.4271/2019-01-0552. The team then implemented the results on a heavy-duty production engine provided by Cummins. Blumreiter, J., Johnson, B., Magnotti, G.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 3, 2022

Samsung first announced QD-OLED plans in 2019, then pushed out the release date a few times. It now seems likely that we will see public demos in early 2022 followed by commercial products later in the year, once the company has geared up for high-volume production.

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Cars That Think

JULY 6, 2022

This particular demo isn’t "fair," but it does give an indication of what peak performance of a racing drone looks like, with a reaction from one of the professional human pilots ( Thomas Bitmatta ) at the end: As Thomas says at the end of the video, the autonomous drone made it through one lap of the course in 5.3

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

NASA announced that @SpaceX will provide a 2nd crewed landing demo on the Moon as part of the Artemis IV mission. Update: NASA says that the Option B modification will cost $1.15 billion, raising the maximum value of SpaceX’s HLS contract to approximately $4.2

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

All told, UK motorists bought just 5,000 fewer BEVs in September than in all of 2019. BEV sales in the UK have grown rapidly over the past year – with demand rising, at least in part due to petrol shortages, which dried up many motorists’ gas tanks in September. BEVs accounted for 15.2% of the UK market in September.

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